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REPORT ON THE NIBA-STUDY DAY IN MARCH 2011
As every year our study day took place at the first weekend of March (March 4 th and
5 th ), an event that provides our guests and members interesting presentations with reference to
body psychotherapy.
The pre-workshop with the title « unfreezing and flow» working with the body in
shock, anxiety and panic, was carried out by Josette van Luytelaar, supervisor and local trainer
at the Netherland Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. In a lively manner she taught us insights
about the work with the «bodystarter», in case of panic attacks and anxiety, which
enables to come out of a frozen state into an energetic flow again. The participants (30!) were
very satisfied; they got new impulses for their therapeutic work.
JOSETTE VAN LUYTELAAR
Because of the gratifying strong demand, Habbo Habbinga extended the capacity limit
of his conference center, so that we were able to welcome 45 participants. Monika Koch,
chairwoman of the training committee, deputized for her colleague Brigitte Merkel this year
and presented this year´s programme.
After a communal dinner Thomas Harms was the first lecturer with the topic «Bodyintelligence
and attachment». The psychologist and head of the «Zentrum für Primäre Prävention»
(ZEPP) (center for primary prevention) and the «Schreiambulanz Bremen» (screaming
ambulance Bremen) presented, based on video sequences, his body- and attachment orientated
therapy and counseling model of the «Emotionale Erste Hilfe» (EEH) (emotional first aid). In
the center of this body orientated approach the idea is, that the parental ability of attachment
and sensitivity is inextricably interwoven with a tender and excepting self-relation. The insight
of Mr. Harm´s work with infants and their parents was very touching for all of us participants.
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